Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Auxier, Randall E.; Stone, Lucian W.

• ISBN13: 9780812694147
• ISBN10: 0812694147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Open Court Pub Co

Summary

This book looks at one of today's greatest thinkers and his influential writings on religion, science, history, and Persian mysticism. The text includes 33 critical essays by contemporary scholars and Nasr's responses to each of them.

Author Biography

Lewis Edwin Hahn: Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Randall E. Auxier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Lucian W. Stone, Jr. is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Southern Illinois University

Table of Contents

Frontispiece	p. iv
General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers	p. vii
Founder's General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Preface	p. xvii
Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 1
Sample of Nasr's Handwriting	p. 2
Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 3
Descriptive and Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, with replies	p. 87
"From the Niche of Prophecy": Nasr's Position On Islamic Philosophy Within The Islamic Tradition In Excerpts And Commentary	p. 89
Reply to Muhammad Suheyl Umar	p. 132
Philosophia Perennis
Nasr's Defense of the Perennial Philosophy	p. 139
Reply to Huston Smith	p. 159
Perennial Philosophy in a Public Context	p. 169
Reply to Robert Cummings Neville	p. 190
The Philosophia Perennis and the Religions of the World	p. 203
Reply to Sallie B. King	p. 221
Revisioning Classical Hinduism Through Philosophia Perennis	p. 233
Reply to Arvind Sharma	p. 248
Reflections on Tradition and Modernity: A Response to Seyyed Hossein Nasr from a Neo-Confucian Perspective	p. 253
Reply to Shu-Hsien Liu	p. 270
Nasr and the Quest for the Sacred	p. 277
Reply to Ernest Wolf-Gazo	p. 304
Buddhist Creative Metaphysics and Islamic Thought	p. 313
Reply to Kenneth K. Inada	p. 327
Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Time and Eternity	p. 335
Reply to G. F. McLean and R. K. Khuri	p. 358
Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Philosophy of Art	p. 371
Reply to Eliot Deutsch	p. 381
Knowledge of the Sacred: The Mystical Poetry of Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 393
Reply to Luce Lopez-Baralt	p. 420
A Nasr Sentence: Some Comments	p. 429
Reply to A. K. Saran	p. 440
Science and Human Knowledge
The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr on Science	p. 445
Reply to Ibrahim Kalin	p. 463
Sophia Perennis and Modern Science	p. 469
Reply to Wolfgang Smith	p. 486
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Religion, Nature, and Science	p. 493
Reply to Giovanni Monastra	p. 512
The Quest for the Universal Global Science	p. 519
Reply to Ashok K. Gangadean	p. 542
Philosophia Perennis and Scientia Sacra in a Postmodern World	p. 551
Reply to Mehdi Aminrazavi	p. 563
Nasr's Absolute Everything and Nothing	p. 571
Reply to Archie J. Bahm	p. 581
The Concept of Spiritual Knowledge in the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 589
Reply to Judy D. Saltzman	p. 612
Its World and the World at Large
The Essential Relation Between Revelation and Philosophy in Islam and Its Importance in Understanding the Nature and History of Islamic Philosophy	p. 619
Reply to Zailan Moris	p. 632
Islamic Philosophical Theology	p. 639
Reply to David B. Burrell	p. 658
Sufism in the Thought of S. H. Nasr	p. 669
Reply to Leonard Lewisohn	p. 679
The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology	p. 685
Reply to William C. Chittick	p. 710
Know the World to Know Yourself	p. 717
Reply to Pierre Lory	p. 728
The Transcendent Spirit, Private Language Fallacy, and Islamization of Ibn Sina: Reflections on the Works of S. H. Nasr	p. 735
Reply to Parviz Morewedge	p. 753
Nur al-Fu'ad, a Nineteenth-Century Persian Text in Illuminationist Philosophy by Shihab al-Din Kumijani	p. 763
Reply to Hossein Ziai	p. 775
Nasr: Thinker of the Sacred	p. 781
Reply to Enes Karic	p. 792
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Apologist or Reformer of Islam?	p. 799
Reply to Marietta Stepaniants	p. 809
Perennial Philosophy Now: The Case of Wilayat-i Faqih	p. 813
Reply to Lucian W. Stone, Jr.	p. 827
Bibliography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 831
Index	p. 965
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